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Curious_Kevin16
Iron Contributor
May 29, 2025

Pointing MX and Autodiscover to 365

We recently migrated to Exchange Online via Exchange Hybrid. MX and Autodiscover are still pointed to on-prem environment as we have room booking mailboxes and resource mailboxes located on-prem. Is it ok to Cut-over MX and AutoDiscover to Exchange Online now? What implications would it have on Room booking for cloud users and  devices configured to use these mailboxes?

Much appreciate your ideas. 

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  • VimsTech's avatar
    VimsTech
    Copper Contributor

    You may go ahead with the MX cutover and Autodiscover change to Exchange Online without any issues. This will eliminate your Dependency on Exchange On-premises and Hybrid to some extent. Hope you have the Defender for Office 365 License.  Also, please make sure to create the Defender for Office365 Policies, Anti-phishing policy, Antispam policy, Antimalware policy, SafeLink attachment policy, and SafeLink Policy. There won't be any issues for you with the On-premises resource mailbox functionalities by doing these changes. By the way, is there any reason to keep the resource mailboxes On-premises? You may migrate them to the cloud to remove the complete dependency on the on-premises server and Exchange Hybrid.

  • Dan_Snape's avatar
    Dan_Snape
    Iron Contributor

    Not sure how your room booking works. With autodiscover pointing to EXO, Outlook clients of EXO based mailboxes would not be able to connect to the on-prem mailboxes. You might be able to configure Outlook on those devices to force a connection to on-premises Exchange. Otherwise you could migrate the mailboxes and configure the room booking app to connect to EXO mailboxes. There's hardly any room booking systems that don't support EXO mailboxes.

    I can't think of any impact of changing mail flow by pointing MX record at EXO as long as you are syncing all AD objects to Entra ID

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